Mirsad Jonuz, the new coach of the Macedonian national team announced the squad for the matches from the WC2010 qualifying Group 9 against Norway and Iceland. The 25-men-squad has few changes and new players like Filip Despotovski, Armend Alimi, Filip Ivanovski and Agron Memedi.
Mirsad Jonuz named as new Macedonian coach
Besides the offers by few coaches with much bigger experience and qualities, the Football Federation of Macedonia has decided to name Mirsad Jonuz as coach of the Macedonian national team.
Five candidates for new Macedonian coach
Macedonian coaches Mirsad Jonuz, Vujadin Stanojković and Cede Janevski and the foreigners Ziya Doğan from Turkey and Ukrainian Oleg Blokhin are the coaches from which the Football Federation of Macedonia will choose the new Macedonian coach.
Apply for a national team coach
Today a new national team coach should have been selected. But, the football federation workers seemed like they had far more imporant job then this matter, so they did not chose. Maybe they did not have too much choice. So, let's help them. Apply for a national team coach!
Macedonia kept the 64th position
Macedonia stayed on the 64th position on the FIFA ranking list for May 2009 because there was no activity in the last month. The 64th place is the worst since October 2007 when Macedonia was on the 75th position.
Ivankovic officially applied for coach
Famous Croatian coach Branko Ivanković has officially applied for the position of a coach of the Macedonian national team, after Katanec resigned recently. In his career, Ivanković has been coaching the national team of Iran and Dinamo Zagreb and has been the assistant of Ćiro Blaević in the Croatian national team, amongst other positions of
Lothar “Matthäuski” perhaps?
In recent weeks, the circus that is the Macedonian Football Federation has been slowly but surely cutting down a list of candidates for the vacant NT Coaching position recently made vacant by Srečko Katanec’s well documented resignation. As per usual, there were many submissions made by in-adequately qualified Macedonian candidates. As well as this, there
Macedonia 3 places down on the FIFA ranking list
Macedonia dropped three positions and lost 18 points because of the 4:0 defeat away to Netherlands. On the FIFA ranking list for April, Macedonia is on the 64th place, the worst since October 2007 when Macedonia was on the 75th position.
Katanec lost the control over the team
After the resignation of Srečko Katanec and his statements where he claims that he resigned because of the ruined atmosphere and bad discipline in the team, the players gave their reactions in which they say that Katanec lost the control of the team and he tried to make conflicts.
Netherlands – Macedonia 4:0
The Netherlands noted an easy win against Macedonia and with the 4:0 tonight, they maintained their perferct record in the World Cup 2010 qualifying Group 9. "We played bad. This is our reality", are the reactions from the Macedonian side after the match.